Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Rather ironically in the context, some pilots cannot handle the intensive rosters and the lifestyle disruption of today's line flying, and one route away from that is to get into management, which gives them their evenings, weekends, bank holidays, and Christmases off, as well as not having to do early starts or late finishes. They need to fly to keep their licence and landings recency up, but they can arrange to fly pretty much when they want and can chose their routes.
So a nice short there-and-back on a Friday morning, then home early because it is 'POETS' day. Never seemed to see them on Larnacas or Sharm El Sheiks, oddly enough !
Of course, once in management, they can change Ts & Cs to make their spreadsheets look better, without appreciating what those changes actually do to people's lives, since they - the managers - don't have to fly full-time rosters on the line.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there. The airspace has never felt so busy, add in air traffic delays, security delays and the rest of it, it's easy to see the appeal for some people.